truce takes hold between israel and hamas preventing rounds of calm after the flare up in violence that's killed five israelis and scores of palestinians. but amid a shaky cease fire we'll look at why previous agreements between the two could fail to stop the bloodshed in the region. plus the trillion dollar euro battle of brussels as european leaders gather to wrestle over the new budget their public back home struggle over the cuts. world news live from our moscow headquarters here watching r.t.e. with me lucy tough enough well more than

a week of bloodshed on the gaza border has stopped with a cease fire to end the strikes which have killed five israelis and more than one hundred fifty palestinians the truce began shakily with several rockets fired into southern israel after the deal had been sealed our correspondent in tel aviv paula slayer has more. some of the fiercest fighting we've witnessed in years between israelis and palestinians if indeed the truce holds it will mean that roughly one point seven million gazans will have a spine now from what we've seen eight days of heavy bombardment at the same time it brings with spikes to roughly a million israelis who live in the south of israel and who've been on the receiving end of constant barrage of rockets but i say if it holds because it is perceived as being rather fragile it certainly is a truce that came by surprise it followed a day of deadly violence in which some twenty eight israelis were injured in the first bus bombing in tel aviv since two thousand and six and there were massive

israeli air strikes over gaza so the sense on the ground particularly in the hours leading up to the announcement of the cease fire was that israel was going to go ahead with a ground offensive and to know who has said that he is willing to give this truce a chance he says however he does hold open the possibility to reopen the conflict at a later stage he said and i'm quoting i know that there are citizens in israel that expected and more severe military action to be taken and perhaps we will need to do so there is criticism towards netanyahu particularly among people in the south of the country who would have supported a ground offensive and wanted to see a much harsher israeli reaction we've had protests in several cities in the south we still don't have too much information exactly what the terms of the cease fire do in fact say that i can tell you that israel for its side has committed to ending hostilities in gaza and at the same time stopping with its targeted killings and mass for its side has also said that it will stop firing rockets into southern israel and staging cross border attacks now there's

a lot of questions still hanging over the whole issue of whether or not is what we're left its blockade on gaza that has been in place for several years now we do understand that is what must begin talks re opening this for the border crossings and lifting the blockade and. easing restrictions on the movement of both people and goods for text however does say that the whole discussion for the procedures for this will begin some twenty four hours off to the cease fire was announced so while the cease fire at the moment is holding a lot of tension on the ground and a lot of questions as to whether or not it will stand the test of time doubts over the truce can hold are fueled by the underlying an unresolved disputes between israel and hamas which is going to to can brings us more and help previous deals have panned out. this ceasefire deal doesn't even begin to address the root causes of the conflict then as long as they remain the decades long cycle of violence is almost assured to continue by now most people lost track of all the previous cease

fire agreements and more generally of where it all started and it became for the most part a chicken and egg conversation you have the years long suppression of the palestinians we saw the radical forces among them rising in striking it is well with is well coming back at them so hard that even most peaceful palestinian started sympathizing with radical forces without going too far back in history in two thousand and six the palestinians in gaza elected hamas that promised a more affirmative response to these three occupation in response israel put gaza under blockade the list of import was directions among many many other things included things like cement wood cattle animal medicine musical latest romans notebooks at one point even lentils pasta tomato paste and chocolate were on the list of items not allowed into gaza it's not easy to gauge what the blockade meant for the people there and all the humiliation that went with it is well insisted that the purpose of the blockade was to pressure hamas into ending

the rocket attacks the attacks did not stop they intensified in two thousand and eight israel launched a major of assault on gaza at the operation cast lead killed more than a thousand palestinians and thirteen israelis did not solve the problem again it got worse merican officials keep repeating the mantra israel has the right to defend itself it sure does but the tragedy is that the palestinians to think they are defending themselves. well israel's deputy foreign minister says that most of those killed and injured in the bombardment of gaza quote deserved it because he claims they were armed terrorists palestinian health officials and human rights activists over and says that more than two thirds of those who died were civilians almost half of them children israel though says the ratio is lower or to talk to one of the country's m.p.'s who defended her government's conduct of the assault. israel is putting so much effort to ensure that civilians are not hurt.

i'm sorry but look at what we're spending on our money we're spending our money on defending our civilians making sure they're safe and making sure that we can we do not hurt civilians when we go to war what this hamas spend their money on they are hiding behind television crews they are hiding behind journalists and israel is doing something on paralleled in the history of warfare it making sure that people who are not involved are not killed and israel is really been commended by all countries not just for having the right to defend its citizens but also for the fact that it is couldn't ducting itself in a way that is very proportional and very measured well journalists an anti-war activist don de bar says a cease fire might save the palestinians from bombs but not from the consequences of the years long israeli blockade. their condition degraded from being storing to

being starving and bombed and now the bombing apparently will stop and so that is a reason to celebrate as meager as it might seem in the face of starvation again the precondition to dealing with that is to give the people it's not just us at least you know enough to survive and have a decent life right now it's a million and a half people in an open and open air prison camp without food without medicine without the material means of survival except for those crumbs that are allowed to pass through the hands of israelis and until that changes israel will not see peace well we'll keep you posted on the situation surrounding the ceasefire in gaza throughout the day of course you can always get more details and coverage and allow analysis our web site r.t. dot com.

leaders are set for a major showdown in brussels where they are gathering to work out a budget deal well some of the states are calling for a reduction in spending those who are heavily dependent on funds are fiercely against any cuts britain has been the loudest voice against a budget increase but as artists heiress laura smith reports the chances for to strike a good deal are quite slim. it's not shaping up to be a pleasant couple of days in brussels after three years of economic turmoil in the e.u. which if we can political ties with stock divisions are emerging on one side northern europe and countries like the u.k. which are demanding huge cuts in spending to match. that's making it to the thout and east who are dependent on cash from brussels very uneasy e.u. president herman van rompuy is stuck between them he suggested seventy five billion euros to the more than trillion euros budget but that satisfied no one britain

appears to warm to the idea. to cut two hundred fourteen billion old that means leaders from both sides of the budget divide threatening. david cameron is heading to brussels of what many are calling mission impossible he's under intense pressure to cut budget contributions but the daily telegraph newspaper understands that his negotiating position is based on the e.u. budget the whole not the u.k. the budget that could leave to him signing a deal that reduces it as a whole but increases britain's coach that wouldn't be at all popular and could easily lead to another rebellion in cameron's government but as the situation it's not clear at all whether a deal will be possible. another headache is greeks where leaders are furious at

a country being left in limbo european finance chiefs fail to agree on handing over the next thirty one billion euros out and vitally means in order to avoid insolvency leaving it straining to meet debtors demands and with thousands of layoffs sparking even more protests economist answer august says people there are on the edge. but you had this very old kind of blame game going on between the greek government and the metro detroit all together and if you want to kind of the dog ate my homework kind of excuse me going on over and over again both calls were very disastrous and lots of fun at all no results for people here on the ground people are really not buying into this kind of what is a very blatant lie going on who's going to excuses i'm just an example just to show you how many things are going on are not really being very much reported the tool can three hundred twenty five municipalities across the entire country until yesterday and i may have already lost count two hundred forty of them have been ok by the whole block by their workers who are refusing to just let go on of course

these are working for it and we immediately immediately or. due to too late this kind of package i was rooting for the great bottom and should be able to really put all of the building on a flight on the ground it isn't just in my truck with the international media picking up the time to actually all the greek anger is well understood in the u.k. thousands of students the areas that rocking situation fees have marched through the london as the government struggles to mend the country's finances well part of that for you later this hour also for heal the rain possible organists this war that is sliding into a spiral of pressure and violence by honest international which condemns the country's ongoing human rights abuses and its broken form promises stated start.

british live demo minister live featherstone said that since women have babies it allows men to pass them up on the letter to power such a children are set back for women who want to be successful and equal to a man so they want to give them the option of taking maternity leave. paternity leave i don't know i kind of see the logic of her view but my question. miss featherstone is why exactly is success in the corporate world the primary goal of life for men and women as a feminist i would think you understand that wanting to fight your way up a ladder to buy a big card or place your shortcomings is a very male way of judging success are women who choose to have families failures or at least unsuccessful in your book even as a mary know that my pocket is really empty after having the first of hopefully many kids but i don't see our child as a financial setback keeping me from buying an x. box guess what success is relative to the goal and maybe a corporate boardroom vision of success isn't for everyone women who have kids are failures in my opinion but then again that's just my opinion.

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welcome back you're watching our team thousands of students have hit the streets of london protesting against rising university fees and the loss of financial support as the second anniversary of huge demonstrations sparked by solar insolation rates are too sour firth has more. serious in that we see put in place in the ad against cuts to education to be much. more limited which was completely closed off by police and this is a promise by the before the last election that they wouldn't raise the tuition fees that it goes. not a couple years ago you had each month the backlash in students about that i mean it's very tough because they said at the tide even up until the point they were bringing in the right situation the good note every university with. the very

maximum amounts that nine thousand pounds but yeah i was actually what we've seen is a lot of us charging not top amount and not very good but the fact that the amount of people who have said my level education that university that's going to be one of the main points of the state is they're being trying to make well our very own max cries or is always there to expose those making profits from people's suffering because a report is coming up next on our team but here's a quick taste of. shadow banking system accounting firms all committing massive pollution and fraud the austerity is right as a response because there's no leadership there's no government look at global insurrection against banker occupation continues billion people in the streets with torches hunt down these bankers and do they have to do it again or it is a scourge. x.-prize

are there for you and how interracial human rights campaigners have slammed bahrain for we nagging on its promises of reform and for ramping up repression just international accuses the gulf monarchy of failing to free political prisoners investigate torture allegations and implement political changes measures that were prescribed by an independent commission that investigated. crackdown on the protests there the push for democracy has seen more than eighteen months of anti-government rallies some of them of course deadly but unlike other arab uprisings plane is one largely unnoticed abroad and this international has also weighed in to the u.s. for failing to back up concerns over its ally with action i think that washington risks enabling abuse and the ngo only thing sees things getting worse. so we have to use that to mean the situation is much worse than it was months ago it's really the terrier eighteen we're talking about at least twenty four people being killed

after they were being independent commission of inquiry issued its reports last year a ban on not protest at the mtu fucked over and only a week ago there were a vocation of national to thirty one opposition activists were also talking about continuous harassment or human rights and one of them is now being the president of the famed center for human rights that was sentenced to some are two three years increased and marilee for having exercised its right to freedom of expression and we consider him to be a prisoner of conscience and we are talking about hundreds of hands and hundreds of allegations of torture that that happened especially since the beginning of two thousand and eleven until now international community has not enough pressure on that one man to ensure that. any independent commission of inquiry recommendations are implemented it were only to squad on what we are seeing is that you are on to her. report was issued we have seen that that main commendation is that would ensure a country we can to justice for victims have not been implemented. it's time for

some other international news stories making headlines this hour pakistan's been wronged by a series of terrorist attacks that left at least thirty six people dead dozens wounded the bloody assault took place in rawalpindi want to suicide bomber attacked a shia religious ceremony twenty twenty three people the violence came just hours after an explosion just a security vehicle in quetta and twenty blasts outside a shia mosque in karachi. congolese rebels from the militant group m twenty three say that they are ready to seize the country's capital the statement was made in the city of go mom which fighters captured on tuesday after al sting of u.s. backed government forces the rebel commander called on the people of the city to join the march and can show to topple president joseph kabila the u.n. security council earlier agreed to sanctions on the rebel leadership introducing a travel ban as well as an asset freeze. thousands of rallied in south korea's

capital ahead of the second anniversary of a deadly attack on one of the country's islands by north korea which accused seoul of breaching naval boarders during military exercises when young to show and or islanders in response to tension remaining fractious between them even praising north korea in the south is punishable on tuesday a man about a ten month suspended prison sentence for tweeting north korean propaganda posts. well as fierce fighting continues in syria a rising number of foreigners are reported to be taking part in assaults on government forces with damascus now providing the un security council with a list of mercenaries it claims were brought in from abroad in order to support the attacks it had over online we've lined up the story. what a dog is certainly a man's best friend especially if it's made of steel and helping to clean up japan's crippled fukushima nuclear power plant. or world news for you in

thirty minutes before then at. martens breaking the set in just a few moments stay with us. the sun rises over what seems like and most forest but here in the new directions cry for hundred kilometers north of light of all stalk as in much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic rate. of. lawyers both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system for filing down the forest of the more skewed region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an ecological crisis the world wildlife fund for nature makes regular trips to help local rangers do what little they can to stop the logging but it's not easy longer set up trucks making them hard to reach an

already rough terrain and have mastered ways to jump through legal loopholes this is a nature reserve we're only sanitary logging of disease trees is allowed according to law and not a single berry can be picked but loggers like this use their sanitary logging permit to cut down absolutely healthy trees and sell the profitable timber over the border in china we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy to forests or it's in our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dream but as soon as we find solid tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare the loggers off alexander some more in ca has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers it's easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after

hours. of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that they've twelve the tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quiet in order to not scare them off as we get closer. this team says they're legal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take over his work here is done he is overwhelmingly outnumbered there are too few rangers working in the promoter ski region and the w w f says the government isn't doing enough to stop it i guess the government now is they started so therefore more whole forest legislation so assumes the pals and so on regards and you'll forest court and according to close up in your law of every forest that's the guys in waltham in the in the forest through the still this forest called steal doesn't work just you should do it as no one tries to stop them in just five years the force will be gone they'll sell it

all to china what will the people who live afterwards do look it's a question more and more people are aware of today climate change in the safety of our environment as a whole are being discussed around the world and perhaps it's those small steps that might be a start to people living in harmony with nature. they'll

. here's mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call i don't know how you conclude it's the longest while this campaign in our history tellers eleven world that. magically before that some are going to lead. with twists and turns in the hallmarks of this one the one i think we're about to do because you've never seen anything like until. what's up guys i'm having learned so i'm sure you've heard the latest israel and

hamas have now agreed to a cease fire marking a somber and eight days of the most violent fighting between the two countries in nearly four years secretary of state hillary clinton who sought to facilitate a role in the cease fire said the agreement will quote improve conditions for the people of gaza and provide security for the people of israel yes the fighting has stopped but will things really improve when the damage has already been done a ceasefire will never bring back one hundred forty palestinians that died nor will it make amends for the five israelis who died along with the twenty seven who were wounded in this morning's bus bombing in tel aviv you see death and destruction are never justifiable and really what was achieved in all of this just more fear more animosity from those that were affected all of which breeds more terrorism look at simple violence begets violence terror begets terror until we realize that we will continue to be pawns in a vicious cycle of vengeance and hate and that's why i'm breaking the set.

on this show i've been covering the israeli palestinian conflict in a way that you won't hear from the u.s. corporate media why because the corporate media lackeys for the u.s. government we already know that the u.s. government has complete allegiance to america's biggest ally in the middle east israel as i mentioned before last week and the r.t. office and gaza along with multiple other media offices were bombed by israeli forces while the day of the bombing of the r.t. office this article came out and alger minor dot com coined the fastest growing jewish newspaper in america it's untitled russia today presenter accuse israel of terrorism and apartheid and underneath the photo caption it says pro terror russia today presenter abby martin and your steen and her i was thinking that i was

speaking out against terror silly me the author. writes that i accuse israel of war crimes terrorism and practice in an apartheid state through multiple reports i had made the week prior first of all thanks for watching the show and i'm not going to sit here and dispute the claims made in this article i'll say it i said it then and i'll say it now israel is practicing apartheid and it's not just me hussein it's noam chomsky it's chris hedges it's multiple other human rights activists and journalists worldwide and yep according to protocol one article seventy nine of the geneva convention it's a war crime to target journalists and dropping white phosphorus on an open air prison is also a war crime lastly it let's talk about what the word terrorism really means the definition is the systematic use of terror often violent especially as a means of coersion so by that definition israel not responsible for terrorizing

palestinians with house demolitions unwarranted arrests torture checkpoints psychological warfare in detention but let's backtrack for a second who is behind alger miner dot com who is set. such nice things about mean well i did a little digging its parent company is a jewish media organization called the gershon jacobson jewish continuity foundation some of the benefactors of the foundation include the israeli ministry of tourism and israel bombs and it has been endorsed by senator joe lieberman york mayor michael bloomberg as well as gabrielle a shell of the permanent representative of israel to the united nations so where am i going with all of this well two days after the r.t.e. office was bombed in gaza and email from the spokesperson for the israeli prime minister's office alex cells arrive to the head of artes in moscow branch no not up.